No matter what Chinese university I've taught at three departments have always been a pain in my @#$, namely: (1) the foreign affairs department (the usual destination of over-the-hill school cadres that don't know a thing about foriegn or affairs or young graduates that will use there position to go abroad) which is a helpful as a hole in the head; (2) the foreign experts dorm management (usually peopled by uptight, conservative foools that hate all foreigners, refuse to improve living conditions above "minimum standards" and still think that locking the doors at 11pm is the best way to "protect" teachers from the evils [see: drinking, partying, hanging out, dating]of China) who continually treat foreign teachers (employees of the school) as if they were born today and (3) the foreign teacher class scheduler (who never fails to schedule a class monday morning or friday morning/afternoon, thereby killing any chance that you might have had for a long weekend) who I guess don't have a life of their own and so are adamant that foreign teachers do not have a life of their own either. If I had my way all three departments would be rendered powerless, reformed or abolished.